
Salt
Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Lead
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 23/02/2026
Job overview
Date posted
09/01/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Lead role is a senior technical leadership position responsible for full ownership of a large-scale, mission-critical enterprise infrastructure within a highly regulated environment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The role covers on-premises, virtualized, and hybrid infrastructure landscapes and requires hands-on expertise combined with strong governance and vendor management capabilities. The position leads and manages enterprise infrastructure supporting multiple business-critical and high-volume transactional systems, ensuring performance, availability, resilience, and compliance with security, audit, and regulatory standards. Responsibilities span infrastructure operations, data centre environments, server, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms, while leading complex transitions from outsourced vendors to in-house or hybrid operating models. The role oversees multi-vendor environments, defines infrastructure standards, policies, and governance frameworks, and drives disaster recovery and business continuity strategies including DR, BC, RPO, and RTO planning and testing. The position leads incident response for major outages across 24/7 production environments, applies security hardening, patching, and vulnerability management practices, and leverages monitoring and logging platforms such as SolarWinds, Zabbix, Prometheus, Splunk, and ELK. The role requires expert-level knowledge of Linux and Windows Server, VMware vSphere components including ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, and NSX, enterprise storage technologies such as SAN and NAS across EMC, NetApp, Dell, and HPE, as well as backup and DR platforms including Veeam, Commvault, and NetBackup. Experience with cloud platforms, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code is highly advantageous, alongside the responsibility to mentor and guide senior and junior engineers in a complex regulated enterprise environment.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead and manage enterprise infrastructure supporting multiple mission-critical and business-critical systems across regulated environments
- Own infrastructure operations, performance, availability, resilience, and reliability for 24/7 production platforms
- Manage and execute transitions from outsourced infrastructure vendors to in-house or hybrid operating models
- Oversee data centre operations including server, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory standards across all infrastructure components
- Lead incident response and root cause remediation for major outages in high-availability environments
- Define, implement, and govern infrastructure standards, policies, and governance frameworks
- Manage and challenge multi-vendor environments to ensure service quality and delivery excellence
- Drive disaster recovery and business continuity planning, including DR, BC, RPO, and RTO testing and validation
- Mentor, guide, and develop senior and junior infrastructure engineers
Experience & skills
- Demonstrate a minimum of 7+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure roles
- Show at least 4+ years of experience operating in a senior or lead infrastructure capacity
- Possess experience working within regulated sectors such as government, finance, healthcare, or similar environments
- Exhibit proven experience managing large-scale, high-availability, and mission-critical infrastructure environments
- Demonstrate strong vendor management experience and ownership of infrastructure transition initiatives
- Show experience supporting high-volume transactional systems in enterprise environments
- Hold expert-level technical knowledge of Linux Server, Windows Server, VMware vSphere, enterprise storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security hardening practices